Introduction to Film

Argentine-British artist filmmaker, Jessica Sarah Rinland is a recipient of numerous prizes including Special Mention at Locarno Film Festival, Best Film at DocumentaMadrid, Primer Premio at Bienale de Imagen en Movimiento (BIM), the Arts and Science Award at the Ann Arbor Film Festival, and Massachusetts Institute of Technology's (MIT) Schnitzer prize for excellence in the arts in 2017. Her work has been exhibited at University of Tennessee's Downtown Gallery, Southwark Park Galleries, Taipei Biennial, Somerset House, and Bloomberg New Contemporaries. She has had retrospectives of her films at Anthology Film Archives, Doc's Kingdom, Aricadoc, Eureka Film Festival, Curtocircuito, London Short Film Festival, and Flaherty Film Seminar. Residencies include Film Studies Center at Harvard University, Somerset House Studios, Flaherty Seminar Fellow, MacDowell, and Ikusmira Berriak. Her films are held in the British Film Institute's collections. She currently works as an educator at the Harvard Summer School and Elías Querejeta Zine Eskola, previously at University College London (UCL), Wellesley College, and Kingston University, and as a freelance cinematographer and projectionist at the Barbican Center. She holds a BA in fine art from Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London, and a MSc in arts, culture, and technology from MIT.